Facts about the Case Caylee was a two year old girl who lived with her mother Casey and her grandparents George and Cindy. Her father remains unknown to the public. On July 15, 2008, Cindy calls the police to request the arrest of Casey on suspicion of theft of their family car and money. She also reports that Caylee was missing for thirty-one days and that her daughter’s car smelled like there was a decomposing body in it. When questioned, Casey admits that Caylee was missing for more than thirty days.
Page one (1), line thirteen, states “Harlem is not an easy place to grow old” – and this is very much backed up throughout the story in her case. Junice first explains to us how her life became turned upside down, her mother (a current drug dealer), had been caught on the corner “holding”, and was placed in jail. And, to ice the “big happy family cake” her father was “non-existent, and that is how it had always been. Thus, Junice and her sister Melissa were taken from their home and went to stay with a woman by the name of Miss Ruby for the time being. In addition, following Junice’s mothers conviction, Junice became acquainted with a young (well rounded) man, by the
TO: Steve Cann FROM: Mary Smith DATE: December 19, 2011 RE: Suzy Tenant’s Case FACTS Ms. Tenant came to us seeking legal advice after receiving a Notice to Vacate from her landlord’s lawyer for unpaid rent and for allegedly being the one bringing unwanted people into the building. Ms. Tenant denies the claims and accepts that while her now estranged husband was living there, he yelled at her and she yelled for help when he was violent; four months ago, she separated from her husband and got a restraining order against him. The eviction letter also states that Ms. Tenant is a convicted thief to which she explains that she did it one time she was driving home with her kids and had no money left to buy food, her youngest child was crying
She said Casey had given varied explanations as to Caylee’s whereabouts and finally amitted that she had not seen her daughter for weeks. Casey had told the police many different stories like her kid had been kidnapped by a nanny on June the 9th, and that she had been trying to find her whereabouts and she was too frightened to alert the police. With the child still missing , Casey was charged with first degree murder in October and pled not guilty. The little girl’s skeletal remains where then found December 11th in a wooded area near the family’s home. The investigation with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department began investigating the disappearance of Caylee Anthony , he found discrepancies in Casey’s signed statement.
At age 16 she shot and killed her pimp who had sexually and physically abused her. She was sentenced to life without parole. Now she is 32 years old and a model prisoner. She has volunteered for many rehabilitation programs and will be getting her associate degree from a local community college (LA Times, 2010). This type of story reminds me that a person still needs to be punished but also look at their backgrounds and home life.
Some that has challenged me for the better and some for the worse. But overall it has advanced me into the woman I have become. This paper will give you a little insight from my childhood, to my adulthood, and give you the chance to learn more about Akeya Davis. Bad experiences I have encounter in my life as a child was my parents being separated. At the age of five years old my parents were drug addicts and always fighting and arguing so they never could agree to be together for me.
In society today poverty is measured to ways either absolute poverty, or relative poverty. Lets start with Absolute poverty, Absolute poverty measures the number of people living below a certain income threshold or the number of households unable to afford certain basic goods and services like food water and shelter. This is the level of poverty you most likely picture when you hear the word poverty. Usually commercials of foreign children, with bloated bellies who suffer from malnutrition and lack of clean water. Absolut poverty is mostly prevalent in developing countries like India or Haiti, but the United States is not immune from it.
There has been an ongoing discussion over the association between poverty and crime. Some of the studies have established that poverty does not increase the crime rate, because in some of the most undeveloped countries where people have low standard of living and some even fight to survive, the crime rate was demonstrated to be low (Christine 2005). However, some researchers have advanced a direct link among poverty and crime. The researchers showed that since people who live in poverty are already having a bad life and the advantage of committing a crime is greater than the fee of committing it and eventually, people who live in poverty is more likely to commit a crime (Niskanen 1996). This essay will explain both viewpoints over the connection between poverty and crime and independently suggest likely causes of crime rate.
Drugs and Poverty and their link Poverty is not only a lack of sufficient income or material possessions. It is also a condition in which people lack prestige and have less access to resources. The poor often have different lifestyles and different values from those of people not living in poverty. The conditions that poor people often cope with may include: unemployment or off-and-on employment, low-status and low-skill jobs, unstable family and relationships, low involvement in the community, a sense of being isolated from society, low ambition, and feelings of helplessness. Many people living in poverty are divorced, are single parents, or have unhappy marriages.
So what is this reality of life called poverty? Poverty is defined by Merriam-Webster as the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. When people hear of poverty, most people think of the people who don’t have anything; the last, the lost and the least. But contrary to what most people believe, there are actually two types of poverty. These are the income and non-income poverty.